CTER Summer Workshops

The Korea University of Technology and Education (KUT) Workshop 2007

CTER provided a summer workshop to a group of faculty representing multiple community colleges from across South Korea in 2007 sponsored by the Illinois Online Network (ION). This was a great opportunity for CTER to reach out to the international community and teach some of its favorite and popular topics surrounding Online Teaching and Learning. These 3 week intensive workshops bring together aspects from all areas of online education including: assessment, instructional design, administration, pedagogy, etc. A comfortable, sharing atmosphere is developed where we not only share educational knowledge, but come to know one another as friends as we try to plan for both an academic and culture education.

Workshop course schedule

Throughout the group’s three-week stay in the U.S., there were approximately 60 hours of instruction time in the areas of Moodle, Pedagogy, Instructional Design, Online Course Quality, Educational Technology, Multimedia, Teaching Competencies & Strategies, Student Assessment, Course Evaluation, etc. all pertaining to Online Teaching and Learning. Here’s a more detailed course schedule:

• Orientation: Welcome to the University of Illinois/ Introduction to Course Management System
• Module 1: Online Education in the United States & Korea/ Introduction to Moodle
• Module 2: What is Online Instruction? /Discussion and Demonstration of Course Management System Tools & Activity Types / Demonstration & Practice of Moodle Activities
• Module 3: Instructional Design for Online Courses Using the ADDIE Model/ Course Mapping Activity/ Transferring Course Map to CMS
• Module 4: Elements of Quality Online Education/ Quality Online Course Rubric/ Review of Exemplary WebCT & CTER Moodle Courses
• Module 5: Transitioning from Onground to Online
• Module 6: Online Education Technology Tools/ 6.1 Asynchronous Tools: Blog, Wiki, Del-ici-us, Flickr, etc. / 6.2 Synchronous Tools: Skype & Elluminate
• Module 7: Integrating Multimedia into Online Courses
• Module 8: Teaching Online
• Module 9: Accessibility Issues
• Module 10: Student Support and Resources
• Module 11: Instructor Support and Resources
• Module 12: Assessing Student Learning (Theory & Strategies)/ Developing a Rubric for DQ Activity Developed Yesterday/ SCORM & eXe (eLearning XHTML editor)
• Module 13: Academic Dishonesty
• Module 14: Evaluating Your Online Course/ Providing Students Additional Ways to Provide Feedback

Field Trips

We also organized several on and off campus field trips to learn how other departments on campus or institutions are doing their online education. According to the workshop evaluation survey, these field trips were one of the most favorite activities which the participants enjoyed since they could have better understanding of online learning environment in the U.S.

Campus Field Trip: Engineering Online, Rehabilitation Education Center to see accessibility tools, Global Campus, University of Illinois LEEP Program, University of Illinois CTER, Parkland College

In addition, the group went on out of town field trips to Chicago and Springfield.
If you are interested in CTER workshops, please contact us by email at cter-tech-L@listserv.illinois.edu.